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Vector 237 Butler 2004-09 BSFA BSFA Officials • Chair(s): Elizabeth and Paul N. Billinger - 1 Long Row Close, Everdon, Daventry NN11 3BE Email: [email protected] Vector 3 • Membership Secretary: Estelle Roberts - 97 Sharp Street, Newland Avenue, Hull, HU5 2AE The Critical Journal of the BFSA Email: [email protected] • Treasurer: Martin Potts - 61 Ivy Croft Road, Warton, Nr Tamworth B79 0JJ Email: [email protected] Contents • Publications Manager: Kathy Taylor - Email: [email protected] 3 Editorial : The View from the Blue Moon • Orbiters: Carol Ann Kerry-Green - 278 Victoria Avenue, by Andrew Butler Hull, HU5 3DZ 3 TO Letters to Vector Email: [email protected] • Awards: Claire Brialey - 4 Bending the World Email: [email protected] an Interview with Karen Traviss by Andrew M. Butler • Publicity/Promotions: 8 Lines and Circles Email: [email protected] Andrew M. Butler on Pamela Zoline's 'The Heat Death of • London Meeting Coordinator: Farah Mendlesohn - the Universe' 22 Addington Road, Reading, RG1 5PT 11 Lining the Mind’s Inside • Webmistress: Tanya Brown - Flat 8, Century House, Steve Sneyd on the poetry of New Worlds Armoury Road, London, SE8 4LH Email: [email protected] 17 First Impressions Book Reviews edited by Paul Billinger BSFA Membership Cover UK Residents: £21 or £14 (unwaged) per year. Please enquire, or see the BSFA web page for overseas rates. Composite photo of Saturn and Phoebe. Images courtesy: ESA/NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Renewals and New Members - Estelle Roberts - 97 Editorial Team Sharp Street, Newland Avenue, Hull, HU5 2AE Email: [email protected] • Production and General Editing: Tony Cullen - 16 Weaver’s Way, Camden, London NW1 0XE USA Enquiries - Cy Chauvin, 14248 Wilfred Street, Detroit, Email: [email protected] MI 48213 USA • Features, Editorial and Letters: Andrew M. 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Billinger - 1 Long Row Close, Other BSFA Publications Everdon, Daventry NN11 3BE Email: [email protected] Focus: Simon Morden - 13 Egremont Drive, Sherriff Hill, Gateshead, NE9 5SE Email [email protected] • Associate Editor: Tanya Brown - Flat 8, Century House, Armoury Road, London SE8 4LH Email: amaranth@ amaranth.aviators.net Matrix Commissioning Editor: Tom Hunter - Email: [email protected] Vector News & Features Editor: Claire Weaver - Email: [email protected] Published by the BSFA ©2004 ISSN 0505 0448 Production Editor: Martin McGrath - 91 Bentley Drive, Harlow, Essex CM17 9QT All opinions are those of the individual contributors and Email: [email protected] should not necessarily be taken as the views of the editors or the BSFA The British Science Fiction Association, Ltd. BSFA Web Limited by guarantee. Company No. 921500 Registered BSFA Web page: address: 1 Long Row Close, Everdon, Daventry, NN11 3BE. http://www.bsfa.co.uk The BSFA is a non-profitmaking organisation, staffed entirely by unpaid volunteers. September/October 2004 • Vector 237 Editorial The View from the Blue Moon previous transit could not have happened in his lifetime, and assuming that he didn't have access to a time machine - although Looking at my Lemony Snicket calendar - yes, OK, I know - I I presume that if anyone could build a time machine from noticed that last Saturday was a blue moon. Remembering the household object, Hart-Davis could - then the footage was rigged. phrase, “Once in a blue moon”, I wondered precisely what a blue Faked. A camera trick. CGI. They had a very small Andy Serkiss moon is. Apparently, it's a second full moon within the same and painted over him. Or something. Reality wasn't so easy. month. As the lunar cycle is round about twenty-eight days, and The pinhole was a washout - too much light pollution from months are twenty-eight to thirty-one days, these can clearly the sun to get a clear disc. The binoculars - well, which way up happen, but not often - it must be a full moon fairly close to the should they be? And again light pollution. Eventually I managed start of a month, followed by one pretty close to the end. to get them lined up correctly, projecting a somewhat oblate So then, you learn something new every day. circle onto the piece of paper (when that wasn't blowing away) But how rare is that then? Pretty rare I would have thought, which clearly had a spot on it in the place I expected Venus to be. but then my brother pointed out that there are roughly thirteen Good enough for me. Or maybe it was an ant. I went back inside lunar cycles in a year, and only twelve months. One of those to try and watch the tv coverage, but reception is lousy at the best months has to have a second full moon. of times. Ah well, in eight years. Once in a blue moon is once a year. Except that I read that it'll happen at night so we won't see it. Not so rare then - no more so than a birthday. That's odd, I thought, Venus is more visible at night. You'd have And come to think of it, the moon was distinctly red, a harvest thought the transit would be clearer. moon. All in all, not a useful phrase. The whole point of this exercise, scientifically speaking, is that Once in a transit of Venus, on the other hand, is twice every by timing the transit from several positions on the Earth you can 120-odd years, in that one happens, eight years pass, then it triangulate the distance from the Earth to the Sun. Or possibly the happens again, then you have to wait another 120 years. This is Earth to Venus. All you need to do is make sure that your watches pretty rare - a twice (once?) in a lifetime deal. The transit occurs are synchronised and accurate, that you know where you are, and when Venus passes across the disc of the Sun, an eclipse which that everyone agree that Venus is touching the edge of the Sun at happens so rarely because of the differing incline of orbits of the the same time. Presumably you also have to compare results. Earth and Venus. It's kind of surprising that it either misses entirely When they did this in the 1 770s they discovered Australia, which or moves neatly across the sun, but presumably transits take suggests they were looking in the wrong direction (and actually it different times, and my head hurts if I get too scientific. was the east coast they discovered, the Dutch having found and So, we had one of these transits recently, and whereas with been satisfied with the west coast back in 1606. And it must have the total eclipse a few years back I actually headed away from been a relief for the Aboriginals to be discovered after all those totality, this time I would be in the zone. Adam Hart-Davis, that years). James Burke for the twenty-first century, gave clear instructions: As far as I know Adam Hart-Davis didn't discover Australia don't look at it directly unless you have the special glasses, but this time, but no one seemed to quite agree on when the start and instead use a pinhole in a piece of card, or a pair of binoculars or stop times of the transit were. They tried to assure us that the Sun a telescope to shine through. Easy enough, I thought. I can do was still the same distance away, which is just as well, because it that. I have cardboard. I have pins. I have bins. It looks easy looks hot and you wouldn't want it to fall into your back garden enough. whilst you were playing with binoculars and a sheet of paper. It's What should have struck me was that we were shown footage a health and safety nightmare. of Hart-Davis projecting a transit very clearly onto a piece of card several days before the event. Given we've established the Andrew M Butler Canterbury, Summer 2004 over to join in the New Wave excitement, were Jon Bing and Tor Age Bringsvaerd. They went back to Oslo and put on a very successful play, Little Lost Rocket Ship (I translate) in the Norwegian equivalent of the Old Vic. Tor Age eventually went to live in Spain. Jon still lives in Oslo and is a distinguished lawyer. Of course I did not get the nationality of Jannick Storm confused. He's the guy to whom Billion Year Spree is dedicated. I used to stay with Jannick in Copenhagen and we're still in touch. Les Hurst doesn't imagine Copenhagen is in Norway, does he, by any chance?! Meanwhile, in V235, David Langford had the sheer effrontery to note our misprint of www.wildsidepress.com in V235, and provided a URL Letters to Vector for a Langford bibliography. The saga continues... A few issues back, in V233, Brian Aldiss helped kicked off the New Wave commemoration with a short article containing the line From David Langford, via email “Norwegians and Americans came over to join in the fun". L.J. Hurst Regarding my nitpicking of URL typos, the BSFA has the last laugh! Although my mention of a bibliography on my site at queried this detail in a letter printed in V235, asking, “ is Brian Aldiss www.ansible.demon.co.uk was reproduced with flawless accuracy, mis-remembering the nationality of Jannick Storm?".
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